From America's newest storyteller about the West, Rand Roberson, comes a story from 1881-82, El Paso, Texas. Several factions who had been at odds with each other were all converging in a nexus of killing in the streets of the new frontier town and in it?s nearby areas. The town at the Pass of the North held much promise as a place where fortunes could be amassed when 4 Railroads would converge there. However, Doc Manning and his notorious brothers and their cronies wanted to make their fortune the easy way- from liquor and opium to rustling, on the backs of others, and by women on their backs. There was a new marshal, though, in the form of the most feared gun-fighting Lawman of the day, Dallas Stoudenmire. He and his brother-in-law, Stanley ?Doc? Cummings, and best friend, J.C. Rogers had been at war with the Manning?s for what seemed like an eternity and spanned half a continent. El Paso Street was going to flow a scarlet tide...